theres been a lot of debate over whether that song is being serious or not but i would also say the beatles later produced its getting better i used to be cruel to my woman i beat her and kept her apart from the things that she loved man i was mean but im changing my scene and im doing the best that i can john and yoko later came out with woman is the nigger of the world as well ive heard a lot of conflicting things about john lennon and im not trying to say he didnt do bad things but his life is complex because it seems like he did bad things but then was genuinely sorry for them and tried to change later in life